There is an extensive body of mathematical theory that explores the consequences of making the allocation of units to treatments by means of some random mechanism such as tables of random numbers, or the use of randomization devices such as playing cards or dice.

The Quays ' excursion into feature films and live-action dance films are by no means an indication of a move away from animation and the literature that inspires them — on the contrary, this next film explores the potential which slumbers in the combination of these cinematic techniques.

In addition, the myth of Orpheus, like Vurt, explores what it means to be human in relation to the non-human ; Orpheus encountered the dead, and Scribble the virtual simulations created by computers.

to King David's Spaceship, The Mote in God's Eye, and The Gripping Hand, that attempts to marry hard science fiction with social science fiction as it explores what it means to be an " alien " in this Empire, and to what degree biology is destiny.

Analects never expands on what this term means, but Zisi's text, Doctrine of the Mean, explores its meaning in detail, as well as how to apply it to one's life.

Through this process a critic explores, by means of various approaches, the manifest and latent meaning of a piece of rhetoric thereby offering further insight into the field of rhetorical studies generally and into an artifact or rhetor specifically.

The second chapter, " Method ", explores what Foucault means by " Power ", explaining that he does not mean power as the domination or subjugation exerted on society by the government or the state, but instead remarks that power should be understood " as the multiplicity of force relations immanent in the sphere in which they operate ".

Committed to " thinking critically and living faithfully ," the magazine explores through argument and reflection what it means to believe and live out the Christian faith in our time.

In this thematic companion to his novel No Enemy But Time ( with an almost inverse conceit ), Bishop tackles issues of racial and cultural prejudice, and explores the question of what it means to be human.

He explores their difficulty when trying to make a stable living for themselves as well as wanting to settle down in some means.

The JNF ’ s collaborative work involves participation in the International Arid Land Consortium, which explores the problems and solutions unique to arid and semiarid regions, working to develop sustainable ecological practices as a means to improve the quality of life among people in arid regions.

Thomas Mann said of Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Double: A Petersburg Poem, which explores a similar doppelgänger theme, " by no means improved on Edgar Allan Poe's ' William Wilson ,' a tale that deals with the same old romantic motif in a way far more profound on the moral side and more successfully resolving the critical in the poetic ".

What it means to be Australian is another issue that Australian literature explores.

* University of Kent: The Department of Anthropology offers a Masters in Visual Anthropology that explores traditional and experimental means of using visual images to produce / represent anthropological knowledge.

In Balti Britain, he explores what it means to be British and Asian in contemporary Britain.

In chapter four, Entangling Space, Greene explores the revolution of the quantum mechanical era, focusing on what it means for objects to be separate and distinct in a universe dictated by quantum laws.

For example, the Dutch theologian Kees de Groot explores the imprecise notion that psychotherapy is like an " implicit religion ", defined as a " fuzzy concept " ( it all depends on what one means by " psychotherapy " and " religion ").

The Voyage is a story that explores what this means for us all: departures and arrivals, hopes and fears, expectations and disappointments.

The Voyage is a story that explores what this means for us all: departures and arrivals, hopes and fears, expectations and disappointments.

Thermodynamics of the universe is a field of study that explores which form of energy dominates the cosmos-relativistic particles which are referred to as radiation, or non-relativistic particles which are referred to as matter.

The ground breaking video explores transhumanist philosopher FM-2030's ( Persian: فریدون اسفندیاری ) ideas of " Nostalgia for the Future ", in the form of an imagined love affair between a robot and one of Man Ray's models in Paris in the late 1930s.

Pavković explores how national self-determination, in the form of creation of a new state through secession, could override the principles of majority rule and of equal rights, which are primary liberal principles.

An NTI probe in the form of a living column of water explores the platform, and while the platform crew believe it to be harmless, Coffey sees it as a threat.

" She explores the idea that " shyness is a form of deviance: a problem for society as much as for the individual ", and concludes that, to some extent, " we are all impostors, faking our way through social life ".

It takes the form of a folded saddle-shaped volume, symmetrical on multiple axes, that explores formal properties of folded spherical frames, which Calatrava described as a flower.

In the form of a detective thriller, Yavanika explores backstage drama of a traveling drama troop.

Lusha's work explores a variety of poetic form.

) This article explores the periodic points of this mapping-that is, the points that form a periodic cycle when is repeatedly applied to them.

Using a first-person narrative style in the form of a " letter " to Senator Jesse Helms ( R-NC ), the filmmaker explores the parallels and differences between himself — an openly gay man — and the staunchly anti-gay rights public servant.

In the final hour the academic timeslot Ideas explores " a range of philosophical, social, historical or environmental ideas ", taking the form of a studio discussion, a documentary presented and produced by Jeremy Rose and Chris Laidlaw, a broadcast of The Forum from BBC World Service, or a broadcast of another documentary.

They include The Evidence of the Senses, which argues for a unique form of direct realism about perception ; Unrugged Individualism, which explores benevolence as a virtue ; A Life of One's Own, a moral critique of the welfare state ; and The Contested Legacy of Ayn Rand, focusing on the schisms within the Objectivist movement.

As in Trouble on Triton, the novel explores conflicting ideas about personal freedom and desire ( Korga has voluntarily opted for a form of psychosurgery making him incapable of anxiety or independent thought ), and definitions of gender ( the novel invents an alternate use of grammatical gender, in which the pronouns he and she reveal the speaker's sexual interest in the subject rather than the subject's biological sex or social gender ).

Autoethnography is a form of self-reflection and writing that explores the researcher's personal experience and connects this autobiographical story to wider cultural, political, and social meanings and understandings.

David Rush explores a sub-genre of theatre, a later hybrid form known as “ drama ,” which he describes as a piece which cannot be specifically categorized as a tragedy, but which he notes involves “ serious people going about serious business in a serious way .” Seeing as the characters in Copenhagen are already dead, they cannot suffer any tragic fall ; though there is definite wit in the arguments, it is taken in a very serious light seeing as it regards subjects like war, fear and nuclear arms.

The novel explores the subject of BDSM in romance novel form.

It explores the best form of child-rearing.

His work predominantly explores form, line and shape within the subject matter of figurative nudes with most of his inspiration coming from the female form.

The book is the study of embodiment in cyberspace, an ideal book also related to human-computer interaction ( HCI ); Ihde explores the meaning of bodies in technology, that how the sense of our bodies and our orientation in the world is affected by various form of information technologies.

It explores vegetarianism from the standpoint of biblical, Talmudic, and rabbinical references, and concludes that vegetarianism is the highest form of kosher and the best diet for Jews in the modern world.

The story explores one of Sam Peckinpah's favorite themes-the end of a traditional form of honor and the arrival of modern capitalism on the western frontier.

Browning explores Roland's journey to the Dark Tower in 34 six line stanzas with the rhyme form A-B-B-A-A-B and iambic pentameter.

In it, Baron explores the history of the English language in written form, and considers how it has evolved through its history, ending with an evaluation of the state of the English language today, and how the Internet and the use of email and text messaging has affected it.